THE RALLYSTAR EXPERIENCE We were four adults who decided to take a tentative step into the world of rallying – not one of us being what the adrenaline junkies would describe as brave – but in the IT -, banking-, medicine and even marketing world you need some guts to get through a working day […]
Writing this article made me feel like being in a proper rally Subaru with long legs – doing 250 plus in sixth closing that “300m” in a wink, setting up for the long left after the crest ….. Magic stuff – if you get it right. At the same time, I experience the same excitement […]
Typographers of yore didn’t come up with the concept of dummy copy because people thought that content is inconsequential window dressing, only there to be used by designers who can’t be bothered to read. Lorem Ipsum is needed because words matter, a lot. Just fill up a page with draft copy about the client’s business […]
But. A big but: Lorem Ipsum is not t the root of the problem, it just shows what’s going wrong. Chances are there wasn’t collaboration, communication, and checkpoints, there wasn’t a process agreed upon or specified with the granularity required. It’s content strategy gone awry right from the start. Forswearing the use of Lorem Ipsum […]
Consider this: You made all the required mock ups for commissioned layout, got all the approvals, built a tested code base or had them built, you decided on a content management system, got a license for it or adapted open source software for your client’s needs. Then the question arises: where’s the content? Not there […]
This is quite a problem to solve, but just doing without greeking text won’t fix it. Using test items of real content and data in designs will help, but there’s no guarantee that every oddity will be found and corrected. Do you want to be sure? Then a prototype or beta site with real content […]
Websites in professional use templating systems. Commercial publishing platforms and content management systems ensure that you can show different text, different data using the same template. When it’s about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web shops, or user profiles in social networks, all of them potentially with different sizes, formats, rules for differing […]
If that’s what you think how bout the other way around? How can you evaluate content without design? No typography, no colors, no layout, no styles, all those things that convey the important signals that go beyond the mere textual, hierarchies of information, weight, emphasis, oblique stresses, priorities, all those subtle cues that also have […]
You begin with a text, you sculpt information, you chisel away what’s not needed, you come to the point, make things clear, add value, you’re a content person, you like words. Design is no afterthought, far from it, but it comes in a deserved second. Anyway, you still use Lorem Ipsum and rightly so, as […]
Most text editors like MS Word or Lotus Notes generate random lorem text when needed, either as pre-installed module or plug-in to be added. Word selection or sequence don’t necessarily match the original, which is intended to add variety. Presentation software like Keynote or Pages use it as a samples for screenplay layout. Content management […]
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Most of its text is made up from sections 1.10.32–3 of Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Boundaries of Goods and Evils; finibus may also be translated as purposes). Cicero famously orated against his political opponent Lucius Sergius Catilina. Occasionally the first Oration against Catiline is taken for type specimens: Quo usque tandem […]
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Former winners Shado Alston, Denver Biggs and Reg Gurnell lead the list of entries for this year’s RFS Auto Bike Econrun on Friday and Saturday. One of the most important events on the annual South African motorsport calendar, the econorun highlights the fuel efficiency of motorcycles available on the South African market and has drawn […]
“Team #24 withdraws from the 2016 South African Rally Championship” Shortly before the start of the 2016 season, reigning national driver’s champion Mark Cronje concluded an arrangement with Volkswagen Motorsport to loan one of its 2015 specification S2000 rally cars. Volkswagen also kindly made an Amarok available to the team, with which to recce […]
5 November 2015 Finally, a combination of years of research and development to produce the ultimate two-wheel drive (2wd) rally raid vehicle have come to fruition for Century Racing. Last night, Century Racing unveiled its custom-built rally cars for Dakar 2016 – the CR5s – at the Century Racing Workshop, north of Johannesburg. The new […]
We would like to determine how many competitors would participate in this series on their own and also if we manage to add some sponsorship to the deals. Guidelines: We will obviously present various options to sponsors and how much publicity you can give will have an effect. If you are a beginner you will […]
The Rally of a thousand circles – or so it feels every year after having driven over the stages a few times to write the rally notes. Distances vary with every run. You get so mixed up you are never sure where you really are when going around and round the irrigated potato and […]
Norway’s Petter Solberg took a sensational victory at today’s World RX of France, round eight of the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy. The result marks the third win of the season for PSRX driver Solberg as the former WRC Champion extends his lead at the top of the overall World RX standings. […]
With the decreasing number of rallyist in South Africa it is not too difficult to stand out and be seen by the spectators and fans. When you excel in good company – and I mean really stand out – then more than just the fans will take note. When I did the Route Notes for […]
This weekend 15th and 16th August sees the National rally action move back into Gauteng and it promises to be a dusty spectacle. The teams will start at 11h00 tomorrow, Friday 15th August from the Zonderwater Prison area. They will complete two stages in the direct vicinity before moving […]
When I saw this specific picture of the One-Man-Band again for the first time in 31 years, I think, I could not help but smile. I love thinking back over the years, doing my best to sidestep the ever-present heaps on the lawn, called politics and backbiting. There are great memories of the different […]
THE PRETORIUS SAGA DRAWS TO AND END Francois aka “Frankie” Pretorius also “affectionately” known as “MSA 1” – a name that he took for himself when he bought the customised number plate for his bakkie, was this morning ordered to pay back more than R1.7m to eight complainants by the Alexandra Court. This was the […]
One morning not so early and not far into the future a group of warriors will arrive at a certain gathering point in Uitenhage, which in turn is near the windy city called Mandela Bay or Port Elizabeth, depending when you were born.There will be many family battle crests, war colours and egos on display […]
Double DTM Champion Mattias Ekstrom has clinched his first-ever FIA World Rallycross Championship victory after a flawless drive in the Audi S1 Supercar at the fifth round of the World Championship presented by Monster Energy. Ekstrom is the fifth different winner and fourth different manufacturer to win in this year’s World RX. The EKS RX […]
Unanimously considered the most beautiful circuit in the world, Spa-Francorchamps will host the last European leg of the FIA WTCC 2014. Of the twelve races held so far this season, Citroën C-Elysée WTCCs have won eleven, thanks to their four drivers: José-María López, Sébastien Loeb, Yvan Muller and Ma Qing Hua. In its début season in […]
Tim O’Neil, the 1990 Mt. Washington Hillclimb overall winner and record holder, will be driving EVSR #02, a 100% electric race car, during the 2014 Subaru Mt. Washington Hillclimb set for June 26-29 at the Mt. Washington Auto Road in Gorham, NH. It will be the first fully electric race car to ever compete in […]
Mladá Boleslav — The Geko Ypres Rally is taking place for the 50th time, and the Škoda drivers have their sights set on playing a major role at the anniversary event. After the one-two at the Circuit of Ireland Rally, Esapekka Lappi/Janne Ferm (Finland) and the Škoda AUTO Deutschland team of Sepp Wiegand/Frank Christian (Germany) […]
Hyundai has already started work on their next World Rally Car, with the second generation of the i20 WRC to debut in the 2015 World Rally Championship season. The team is currently six events into its WRC return, and although they have had their fair share of problems, the new car has shown promise – […]
Jannie Kuun, one of the best known rally drivers in South Africa passed away yesterday 10th June 2014. He was especially well known in the Pretoria Motor Club of which he was one of the longest standing members. He was one of the few very lucky rallyist who were able to drive in International events […]
A former Formula 1 doctor warns there likely won’t be any good news on Michael Schumacher’s condition. The racing legend suffered a serious head injury while skiing in France on December 29, and though it appeared at one stage there would be positive news from the gradual process of waking him from his coma, there […]
World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier is starting to enjoy the Rally Italia, and is looking to extend his standings lead in Sardinia. The Frenchman won the event in 2013 on his way to the title. However, despite that success, the Volkswagen driver revealed in an interview with World RallyChampionship’s official website that he is not […]
Robert Kubica was the surprise pacesetter through this morning’s shakedown stage at Rally Italia Sardegna. It was the first fastest time on a WRC gravel stage for the Pole who comes into the rally fresh from a weekend test in Sardinia. “I had quite a good feeling straight away and the grip was better than […]
• Ogier, Latvala and Mikkelsen second, third and fifth fastest • Plenty of dust and sun – 4.33-kilometre warm-up ahead of the Rally Italy Successful warm-up for what promises to be a red-hot duel for the World Championship lead: Volkswagen duos Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F) and Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila were second and third fastest in […]
The duel for the overall lead in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) is once again Polo R WRC against Polo R WRC at round six of the WRC. Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia and Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila line up at the Rally Italy, from June 5 to 8, each with the goal of improving their position […]
SUBARU RALLY Team USA’s David Higgins and Craig Drew dominated the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally (STPR), the fourth round of the Rally America National Championship, on May 30-31 in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. It is the third overall victory for the team this season to widen their Rally America points standings lead. Higgins and Drew won all […]
SEBASTIAN VETTEL says Formula 1 could be in for a wild ride this weekend in Canada due to the “high risk” nature of the circuit.The Montreal track is known for yielding action-packed grands prix with the Wall of Champions one its well-known obstacles.The Wall has caught out many drivers including Vettel, although he has only […]
THE WTCC, the first FIA World Championship to stage an event in Russia, is back at the Moscow Raceway. 80 km west of the Russian capital, this 3,931 m track combines long straights with technically demanding sequences of twists and turns. “Although there are some opportunities for overtaking, it’s more like the Hungaroring than the […]
SIXTH ROUND of the WRC season, Rally Italia Sardegna is set to welcome the World Rally Championship crews and teams on a partially renewed route.Held on roads around Sanremo from 1970 and then in Sardinia from 2004 onwards, Rally Italia has seen a Citroën winner on six different occasions. The French car maker’s first win […]
Marc Marquez is riding towards a special place in bike racing history according to America’s own bike legend Fast Freddie Spencer, a history maker in his own right. Spencer held the crown of youngest ever MotoGP world champion for three decades until Marquez came along in 2013 with his stunning rookie season title. And, in […]